Being an entrepreneur is at the core of who I am. Before I even knew what the word "entrepreneur" meant, I was selling sweets at school and "fishing rights" to my parents' pond.
It was these pursuits that primed me to see the potential of the Internet back in 1998, when my best friend excitedly showed me his computer after school one day. Amazon was still in its infancy and online chatting was emerging, a technology that stunned me. How was it that my friend could speak to someone in Chicago all the way from the English countryside? Imagining the future of the Internet, I said to myself, “I’ve got to do something with this.”